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Trudeau: Boston bomber felt “excluded”

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Justin Trudeau, keen to chart new territories of shallowness while packing as many clichés into as few sentences as humanly possible, reckons the “root cause” of the Boston bombings was whatever gave the bomber a feeling of “exclusion”. If only the neighbourhood welcome wagon had got to him earlier.

There is no escape: from the Anglican Church of Canada to foppish liberal politicians, one vice rules them all – exclusion.

From here:

In an interview with the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge that aired Tuesday night, Trudeau was asked how he would have responded to the attacks that killed three people and left about 170 injured.

Trudeau said he would offer the American material support “and at the same time, over the coming days, we have to look at the root causes.”

“Now, we don’t know now if it was terrorism or a single crazy or a domestic issue or a foreign issue,” he said. “But there is no question that this happened because there is someone who feels completely excluded. Completely at war with innocents. At war with a society. And our approach has to be, where do those tensions come from?

The Boston Marathon Bombings

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As of this writing, three people have died – one an eight year old boy – and 143 are injured. Two bombs went off and two others were defused. Horrible though this is, it strikes me as a far cry from the kind of mayhem America’s enemies would like to inflict: terrorists on North American soil are, for the present, a bedraggled coterie of less than effectual bumbling cowards.

Predictably, President Obama couldn’t bring himself to call the bombings a terrorist attack even though, judging by the news video footage, everyone looked terrified.

On CNN, Peter Bergen suggested the bombers could have been “right wing extremists”; he really wanted to say “right wing Christian extremists” but didn’t think he would get way with that even on CNN.

Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah clearly were not listening to Peter Bergen since, minutes after the atrocity, they made a presumption of ownership and began to celebrate:

Shortly after terror bombs exploded and murdered over 12 people [actually only 3 so far] at the Boston Marathon, members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah were reported to be dancing in the streets of Gaza, handing out candies to passers-by.

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The head of an Islamic terror organization in Jordan – the Muslim Salafi group says he’s “happy to see the horror in America” after the bombing attacks in Boston.

“American blood isn’t more precious than Muslim blood,” said Mohammad al-Chalabi, who was convicted in an al-Qaeda-linked plot to attack US and other Western diplomatic missions in Jordan in 2003.

It seems that a Saudi national is a “person of interest”; even so, no-one denounced this as racial profiling – yet.

And the church is praying.